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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Enhancement Event Agent

Ability to select multiple steps when adding a task in one go. For example, if I have 10 agents and I want to run them from a parent agent I can multi select them from the same folder they are in, instead of selecting them one by one. The result s...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

Ability to hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add support for custom URLs to Cognos Analytics dashboards including multilingual and accessibility parameters

We wish to have full support for custom URLs with all optional parameters extended to include Cognos Analytics dashboards. This should include support for multilingual parameters contentLocale and productLocale, as well as accessibility features p...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted